Noticed some blogger coverage of the cable broadband announcement yesterday (made this week in Sin City aka, The Cable Show 2007.

BBR has good stuff, as did Om.

Link is preparing an in-dept look at this announcement later today, but there a few things worth mentioning here.

There was no date of deployment announced for this cable modem, and no specifics on when consumers will actually get to use it.  But it’s all good – the ultra-fast broadband race is joined! 

As readers here know, there are FiOS users today using 50Mbs down and 10Mbs up in their homes.   So the announcement is good news for the consumer.

But as long as we’re talking about the broadband future, I can’t help but remind folks of some context.  149Mbs down and ..er… no news on upstream, is great, but as they say, “you ain’t seen nothing yet.“

FiOS engineer Brian Whitton discussed here at PolicyBlog equipment being installed this summer that can deliver speeds up to 400Mbs.  

Four-hundred Mbs!  On equipment being installed this summer!

We won’t light up that speed right away because there’s nothing yet out there in wide use that can use it.  Rest assured, that day is coming.

I do have to take issue with how CrunchGear reacted to the announcement, (Sanjaya-like IMHO)

Now Vince, I kid because I link love like .  But you don’t have to be a Verizon fan-boy to get the fiber story, and you can have any opinion about FiOS and Verizon you like, but there are some facts aren’t debatable.

I know you didn’t really think there are only 19 FiOS users.  So for the record please note, Verizon had 864,000 FiOS Internet customers and 348,000 FiOS TV customers at the end of March 2007; passing 6.8 million homes in 16 states right now and 18 million by 2010.  Latest FiOS facts can be seen here.